Creative Writing
Bath Spa University
UCAS Code: W800 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
A Level - grades BBC-CCC including a Grade C in English or a related subject preferred.
Access to HE Diploma
Typical offers for applicants with Access to HE will be the Access to HE Diploma or Access to HE Certificate (60 credits, 45 of which must be Level 3, including 30 at merit or higher). You may be invited to submit a piece of your own creative writing as part of the selection process.
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
A minimum of 27 points are required from applicants who demonstrate a strong interest in creative writing. You may be invited to submit a piece of your own creative writing as part of the selection process.
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
Extended Diploma grades Merit, Merit, Merit (MMM) accepted from applicants who demonstrate a strong interest in creative writing. You may be invited to submit a piece of your own creative writing as part of the selection process.
T Level
Grade Merit is preferred.
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About this course
- More specialist strands than any other course in the UK.
- Focus on graduate employability, building industry connections.
- Large and diverse student body – close to 500 students from across the world.
This course is challenging, exciting, and versatile. Here, you can expect a professional level of tuition – and we expect a professional level of commitment and achievement from you in return. Our comprehensive programme includes prose, poetry, scriptwriting for the stage and screen, feature journalism, writing for new media, life writing: in fact, whatever you want to write, you’ll find an opportunity at Bath Spa University. We also work with drama and film students to produce films and podcasts, and encourage you to get involved in a wide range of writing-related areas such as readings, performances and magazines.
Employability is central to the writing programme. Both individually and in groups, you'll prepare for the writing/creative industry career of your choice.
Modules
Year One will develop your key skills in creative writing through four core modules these can be: Writer’s Workshop, Poetry, Fiction, and Scriptwriting. You will have the opportunity to take optional modules for major and joint students.
In Year Two you’ll specialise in a core module of your choice alongside a wide range of specialist modules, which can include journalism and new media, writing for young people, traditional “page” poetry, genre fiction, short stories, nonfiction and more.
Finally, Year Three will see you take on a Creative Enterprise module as well as a dissertation-equivalent project in either poetry, novel writing, nonfiction, writing for young people. Optional modules include independent project module, collaborative film module as some examples.
For more information please refer to the website.
Assessment methods
Assessment is based on 100% coursework (no exams). Most modules will require you to submit a portfolio of creative writing along with a reflective essay in which you describe what you have learned in class, what you have learned from the set texts and working on your own writing.
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The Uni
Bath Spa University
School of Writing, Publishing and the Humanities
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The jobs market for this subject - which includes creative writing and scriptwriting courses - is not currently one of the strongest, so unemployment rates are currently looking quite high overall, with salaries on the lower side. But nevertheless, most graduates get jobs quickly. Graduates often go into careers as authors and writers and are also found in other roles where the ability to write well is prized, such as journalism, translation, teaching and advertising and in web content. Be aware that freelancing and self-employment is common is common in the arts, as are what is termed 'portfolio careers', having several part-time jobs or commissions at once - although graduates from this subject were a little more likely than many other creative arts graduates to be in conventional full time permanent contracts, so that might be worth bearing in mind.
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